In Destiny 2, the summer event Solstice of Heroes is just around the corner. Many Guardians are already looking forward to it. However, this also brings a change that concerns many fans. What’s going on?
What is the Solstice of Heroes? The Solstice of Heroes is an annual summer event that marks the end of the respective Destiny year, in this case, the second, allowing Guardians to celebrate their achievements and accomplishments.
Traditionally, there are also a variety of new theme-inspired cosmetic items through the Eververse. However, this year the Solstice event gets a significant change from Bungie.
You can find out more about it here: Solstice of Heroes is coming – What’s in the summer highlight of Destiny 2
This is what the change is about: Although there will still be many event-specific items through the Eververse during the Solstice of Heroes 2019, these can no longer be earned in the form of event engrams. The event engrams for the Eververse will be completely removed for the Solstice. Whether this will also apply to subsequent events is not yet known.
The individual event items can then be purchased directly from Tess Everis’s shop using real-money currency Silver and the in-game currency Glimmer. Each event-specific item will be guaranteed available during the Solstice event for Glimmer.
Previously, every level-up after reaching the maximum character level during events rewarded players with double Glimmer engrams: one from the respective season and one event engram, from which the event-specific rewards were obtained—alongside the existing Eververse offerings.
There was a duplicate protection for event engrams. An item could only be obtained again once all items from the event loot pool were already collected. Players considered this a fair and balanced method to obtain event rewards.
What does this mean for players? Specifically, this means: Apart from the armor, you will now receive event-specific rewards if you pay for them—either with Silver or Glimmer. You can no longer earn them.
If you
- only have limited Glimmer reserves and have little time during the event to earn more
- and/or do not acquire enough Glimmer by dismantling existing Eververse items
then it might be difficult for you to collect all the desired items from the summer event.
What do the fans say? Although the prices for the items are not yet known, many players fear that Guardians with little Glimmer may be pushed to reach for their wallets if they really want to have this or that item.
In the past, you had a good chance to earn everything completely for free through the event engrams—given enough time. Many fans now say that the event has lost a lot of its appeal for them since they have little Glimmer but do not want to spend money on the new items.
Many consider the event engrams in their previous form to be one of the best decisions Bungie made regarding the previously criticized Eververse, and therefore cannot understand this step.
Others support this change because now each event item can be specifically purchased with in-game currency. Chance is completely eliminated, provided you have enough Glimmer or, if necessary, Silver—a change many players have desired for some time, especially when they have little time to play.
Conversely, some speculate that Bungie might now be intentionally trying to deplete the Glimmer resources of Guardians before the release of Shadowkeep. Because the Glimmer economy of the Eververse will be revised with this expansion.
Whether it will indeed become easier to acquire sufficient Glimmer remains to be seen. Some think it is conceivable that Bungie wants to prevent larger accumulations of Glimmer.
What do you think of this change? Right decision? Or do you wish for the event engrams with the previous system back? Let us know in the comments.
